really cool site
July 3rd, 2008Can you guess what this is tied too?
“Buy N Large“ (answer here)
and growing….
July 2nd, 2008distrotions
July 2nd, 2008All maps distort whatever data they try to present. The examples below show, in increasing levels of magnitude, how badly this exaggeration can accumulate with scale….
Perhaps most exaggerated of all though has to be the images that are typically given to show the accumulation of “space junk” — remnants of space flights and defunct satellites, etc. In this image each pixel represents approximately 114 miles; so a piece of debris the size of a car is marked with a point the size of Long Island — easily a 6 order of magnitude exaggeration.
just passing it on…
July 2nd, 2008A blogger caught Justice Kennedy having made a really big error in modern Supreme Court history. In the death penalty child rape case, when he said that the death penalty for this crime was “against evolving standards” he overlooked, what a blogger found, that in 2006 Congress itself had made rape of a child a crime subject to the death penalty under the military code.
It turns out that Justice Kennedy’s confident assertion about the absence of federal law was wrong.
How can something be against “evolving standards” when Congress elected by the people of the land just endorsed it?
From the NYT article:
No one in the military has been charged with a capital crime yet under the revised provision. And despite the flurry of activity surrounding the death penalty, the military has not in fact executed anyone for decades. Its last execution took place on April 13, 1961, when Pvt. John A. Bennett was put to death by hanging. His crime: the rape of an 11-year-old girl.
brian wilson rates the States
July 2nd, 2008
approval
July 1st, 2008Anyone that has responsibility or authority over another person should not seek to be loved by that person. It might happen, but seeking love from a subordinate can cloud the judgment of the leader.
Examples: Parents and children. Bosses and employees. Pastors and congregations. Teachers and students. Kings and subjects.
shall not be infringed
June 30th, 2008Blackstone’s Commentaries: “The right to self-defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine the right within the narrowest limits possible.” (HT:NRO)
Poem
June 30th, 2008If I ever thought to get a gun
My inner voice would cry out
What do you want with a gun, TJ?
You’d likely shoot your eye out.
Raised so far away from the NRA
That I never touched a rifle
Those semantic fights re: the Bill of Rights
Seemed an academic trifle
But in later life with a home and wife
I began to pay attention
To the need to care and the right to bear
And the framers’ true intention
I know despite good aims there are urban flames
And that firearms could fan them
But do we solve or at all evolve
If we merely try to ban them
Well I had my doubts due to all the shouts
But Scalia I could kiss ‘ya
Because you could sense the difference
Between a gang and a militia
pray
June 29th, 2008There are only two times to pray: when you need it, and when you don’t.
~Pastor Mike
